At this week's CloudWorld conference, Lew Tucker described Sun's vision of a world in which web applications can scale up their own hardware resources:
[INDENT]"As we look into the future, we're going to see that applications are going to be increasingly responsible for self-provisioning," Sun's cloud-computing chief technology officer told a sparsely attended CloudWorld conference in downtown San Francisco this morning. "As a computer scientist, I think that is an area of cloud computing that's most interesting.[URL="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/13/sun_and_auto_scaling_cloud_apps/"] Full Story[/URL][/INDENT]